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Zero Minus X

By Karl Zeigfreid, Lionel Fanthorpe, and Patricia Fanthorpe

E-Book

£P.O.R.

An SF Gateway eBook: bringing the classics to the future.

Man is an intelligent mammal. His intelligence lies in his brain. In mammals the tissues of the central nervous system are irreplaceable. The human brain contains something like 100,000,000,000,000 neurons, but 100,000 are destroyed on average each day of a man's life. Cosmic rays and general internal and external radioactivity account for most of this destruction.

Hunger and Gradey decided on an illegal experiment. They brought up a small group of children in a strange artificial setting where there was practically no radiation. The setting was improved. The environment grew more shielded as generations passed. At last the Thinkers exploded into a world that had not dreamed of their existence. The world was facing other complications at the moment. An alien had appeared from the other side of the cosmos! Humanity was faced with two potentially deadly enemies; could they be turned against each other, or was one a secret friend?

Biographical Notes

Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (1935- )

Lionel Fanthorpe was born in Dereham, Norfolk, in 1935. He sold his first story in 1952 and has since written nearly 200 novels and collections of shorts under a variety of pseudonyms. He has worked as a dental technician, factory machinist, farmworker and lorry driver. He has also been a journalist, a lecturer for Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies and an Industrial Training Manager. He trained as a teacher at Keswick College of Education and took an Open University degree. His main hobbies are Power Lifting and Judo at which he has a Brown Belt awarded by Brian Jacks.

Patricia Fanthorpe (1938- )

Patricia Fanthorpe was born in Beetley, Norfolk, in 1938, and married Lionel in 1957. They have two daughters, Stephanie Dawn (1964) and Fiona Mary (1966). Her own favourite writer is Edgar Rice Burroughs. Her first literary ventures were the co-authorship of various textbooks on metrication, office management, and a payroll guide.

Space Fury

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

The Unconfined

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Anthropologists argue over the significance of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon remains and vast periods of pre-history remain to be filled satisfactorily. These hidden eras of the long-dead past are as open to speculation and mysterious adventure as the unguessed vistas of tomorrow. How many strange, undiscovered species of man have lived and died leaving no apparent record of their existence?An avalanche on the Swiss-Italian border isolated Marian Sanderson and a frightening assortment of other guests in a peculiar old alpine chateau. Although no human rescue party was able to make the climb, something moved on the precipitous slopes around them.As Marian gradually discovered the truth about her fellow guests she realised the avalanche had been no accident. Something of terrible potential lurked outside the isolated chateau...Dark, supernatural forces were poised on the brink of Ultimate Fear...

R L Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

Supernatural Stories featuring The Frozen Tomb

Leo Brett, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

Authors:

Leo Brett, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

Another spinetingling collection from the prolific pen of R L Fanthorpe!The Frozen Tomb: Unliving and undying she waited in a casket of ice.Sleeping Place: His thin lips curled back to display rows of sharp, white teeth.Strange Country: "What is he doing there? How could he escape?"Cry in the Night: The wolf cry sounded strangely human in the darkness...The Thing from Boulter's Cavern: Inhuman survivors of a weird, ancient race lived on in the labyrinth.The Coveters: "Greed is a psychic disease...maybe it has a psychic cure...?"

Supernatural Stories featuring Twilight Ancestor

R L Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

Authors:

R L Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

The Gliding Wraith: If he was really asleep in his chair why did he glide across the street?Twilight Ancestor: Her evil power held the tribe in terror ... only the stranger dared to oppose her.The Man Who Never Smiled: The stranger never parted his lips, as though afraid of what he would reveal.Fangs in the Night: Something evil and dangerous lurked in the shadows below the window.An Eye for an Eye: He had forgotten about the hare in the trap ... until his own life was in danger.

Out of the Darkness

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

The Planet Seekers

Lee Barton, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

Lee Barton, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

A strange new race of modified men had fantastic powers and a kind of immortality. But something the human touch itself had been lost, and in consequence a terrible barrier grew. It looked as if a cataclysmic war would be inevitable.

The Negative Ones

John E. Muller, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

John E. Muller, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Henderson was a brilliant nuclear physicist until the night he staggered home a pathetic wreck of his former self, raving wildly about flying saucers and a strange being named Ravan. No scientific nation could afford to lose a genius of Henderson's capacity and Parnell Scott, an experimental psychiatrist, was given the job of restoring Henderson's sanity. Scott gradually infiltrated Henderson's apparent fantasy and found himself involved in research that produced frightening results.According to ancient legends there had once lived a strange, tyrannical ruler named Ravan, who had possessed a vimana or 'flying car'. Bur Henderson knew nothing of the legends!Parnell Scott worked desperately against time, sinister foreign agents intent on keeping Henderson insane, and something as old as human history yet as new as tomorrow and more dangerous than nuclear energy.

Out of the Night

John E. Muller, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

The Triple Man

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Psychology recognises the existence of multiple personalities inhabiting the same mind. To the ancients such strange transformations were evidence of demonic possession, and even today there are reputable experts who would not rule out the possibility that something else can take over a human mind.To the victim of such personality change there are long periods for which the memory cannot account, periods during which the secret enemy is in charge.Walter Hamilton was a perfectly normal, well-adjusted man in early middle age when strange gaps in his memory first began to worry him. At first he tried to ignore the tell-tale symptoms of schizophrenia but other clues presented themselves. The face in the crowd scene on a telerecorded film vaguely familiar. It wasn't his fave... but there were undeniable similarities. A picture in a newspaper worried him more...Before he could extricate himself he was trapped in a tangled web of interwoven personalities, unable to find himself, powerless to break away from the sinister complications of his two other lives.

Atomic Nemesis

Karl Zeigfreid, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

Karl Zeigfreid, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Alexander Blish was the security chief at Tomloy's, the new nuclear physics research centre. They were doing things in the plant that had never been done before. They were tapping power sources so terrible that their ultimate conclusions could be heaven on earth or a hell of destruction. Armageddon might be just around the dangerous corner which humanity called tomorrow.Blish had problems. There were alien forces to consider. There were human traitors who were prepared to sell out the Empire if the price was right. The price could be as high as planetary control.Wilkie Gordon was Alexander's second problem. Wilkie was an outworlder with strange wild talents. He could be an invaluable ally or a deadly enemy. Blish had to decide and decide at once. If he made the wrong choice there was just a chance that Gordon could detect the aliens and renegades before they reached the J-Pile...

The Unseen

Lee Barton, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Authors:

Lee Barton, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe

Legends of the living dead have filled the pages of mythology since time immemorial. If ninety-nine point nine percent of the stories can be explained as hallucinations, tricks of the light, moving shadows or sheer imagination, a hard core of disquieting fact remains.The vampire lives in the minds of men. When was it born? Perhaps in the dim distance of the remote past when the racial subconscious was being moulded. What keeps the vampire tradition alive in the mind of modern man? The two tiny words of "what if...?"Leroy Thompson met a girl in a dark country lane. He offered her a lift. He met her again and again, but always by night. Then he looked in the driving mirror and saw only his own reflection... She cast no shadow in the headlights... She screamed and leapt from the car before he reached a bridge that crossed a moonlit stream... What if?